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IL G. MAYOR SETS UUCP Ml
PIGSKIN QUEENS
Autumn, jack frott, pumpfcin*-
football. And what i« a football
game without Itt than of glam
our to go with th9 gridiron
glory? In colUgu all ovtr the
country, at thia time of the year
•tudent bodie* are preparing for
or eagerly awaiting their home
coming games, and part and par
cel of these tport-tocial affairs
are homecoming queens. The
"Queens" in the above pictur^
are enough to add glamour to
any gridiron tug of war. In the
photo at top, HilUid* high
school's homecoming gueen and
her attendants are seen as they
prepared to enter the high
school’s parade in Durham last
Friday. Left to right are Emmm
Barnett, Dorcas Carter, Miss
Homecoming, and GeraldiiM
Barbee. Photo at left shows
North Carolina Collegi^s home
coming queen and her attend
ants who are awaiting the Col
lege’s homecoming game in Dur
ham on Oct. 31. Left to right are Homecoming, Bettye Redding,
Gail Mack, Wilmington, Miss Oxjord, and Helen Wall, Wag-
rath.
—Staff Photos by Stanback
Refusal Of Drink
Said Arson IMotive
WmSTON-SALSM
A woman wbo bad apparent
ly had too much to drink got
mad at her neighbor because ha
refused her a drink of whiskey,
set fire to his house last Monday
and attacked a fireman attempt
ing to extinguish the blaze.
When she was finally arrested,
police had to delay formally
charging her with the crimes be>
cause she was so ^toxlcated
they couldn’t thorou^y quea-
tion her.
Booked on charges of arson
and assault with a deadly wea
pon was Miss I4Uy Boas of 1411
Wilson avenue who set fire to
the home of her neighbor, Jack
Renick, last Monday.
Renick, who lives at 1380
Wilson avenue, said when ha
came home from work at the
Winston Leaf Tobacco and
Storage company at noon Mon
day Miss Ross came to bis bouaa
demanding that he give ber a
drink of liquor.
Renick said he told bar ba
didn’t have a drink, but said
she persisted In her demand and
finally left after threatening tb
set fire to the place if he didn’t
give her a drink.
As he returned to work altar
the noon hour, Renick said he
passed her carrying a gallon can
wliich he later learned contain
ed kerosene.
Mrs. Maybelle Moses of 1884
Wilson avenue, a neighbor of
Renick, said that shortly after
noon, Miss Ross entered her
house and ardered her to leave,
brandishing a switchblade knife
Mrs. Moses said she left, and
Miss Ross poured kerosene over
the kitchen floor.
Investigating police officers,
filling in the rest of the details,
said that Mias Ross then went
to the porch of Renick’s house
and poured the remainder of the
kerosene on a bundle of laun
dry and then set it afire.
A passerby called the Fire
department and before the blace
could be extinguished, Mias
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IKE ADMINISTRATION MOVES
TO FULFILL ANTI-BIAS PLEDGE
WASHINGTON
The Eiaenhower administra
tion made what appeared to be a
move to back up its pre-election
promises of banning racial dis
crimination in government this
week.
The Oovemment Contraeta
Compliance Conunittee, head
ed by vice-president Uchard
Nixon, sent oat a letter this
week to some 29 government
agenoiea which has oontraete
with private boslneases asking
them wliat they liad done or
intend to do to enforce tiie
President’* ezeontive order
forbidding racial discrimina
tion in private businesses hold
ing (ovemment contracts.
- Included among the agencies
was the gigantic Department of
Defense, headed by former Gen
eral Motors executive Charles
Wilson. The Defense Depart
ment has contracts with many
southern firms, including t^tile
mills, and the Atomic Energy
Coflmmission, which is building
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FOR THIRTY YEARS THE OUTSTANDING WEEKLY OF THE CAROLINAS
Entered as Second Class Matter at the Poet Office at Durham, North Carolina, under Act of March 3,1879.
VOLUME 30 — NUMBER 38 DURHAM, N. C., SATURDAY, (XTTOBER 24, 1953
PRICE TEN CENTS
Old Slave] Market
In Tarheella Bombed
Fayetteville
Scene Of Blast
FAYETTEVILLE
Police were stiU seeking clues
early this week into the myster
ious bombing of this town’s his
toric old Market place, where,
before the Civil War, Negroes
were traded and sold into slav
ery.
Windows in surrounding busi*
ness places were shattered and
residents for blocks around were
awakened early Sunday morn
ing by an apparent dynamite
blast which tore away part of
one of the columns in the mar
ket place, located in downtown
section of the city.
Police were at a loss to ex
plain the bombing, in which no
one was injured. The only theory
tliat they have to work on is that
the bombing appeared to be the
work of vandals.
Workers Eat
Togetlier At
Charleston Yard
CHARLESTON, S. C.
White and liegro Navy
yard workers ate side by side
at a newly non-segregated
cafeteria for civilian workers
here at the Navv Yard at
Charleston, cidatel of South
ern white supremacy, without
incident last Monday.
This situation came about
as the results of the Navy's
new non-segregation policy
for civilian establishments
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Inauguration
TUSKEEGEE, Ala.
In its seventy-two-year his
tory only two inaugural cere
monies have been held at Tus-
kegee Institute: Dr. Robert R.
Moton’s in 1916, and Dr. F. D.
Patterson’s, in 1935.
Scholars and friends from
tliroughout the nation will Jour
ney to the Institute on October
31 and November 1 to take part
in the cere^ides which will
see Dr. L. H. Foster Inaugurated
as Tuskegeo Institute’s fourth
head.
At the exercises, to be held In
the Institute Chapel, Dr. John
Dale Russell, chancellor and
executive secretary. New Mexi
co Board of Educational Finance
and formerly professor of Edu
cation at the University of Chi
cago and later specialist in high
er Nucation in the U.S. Office
of Education, will deliver the in
augural address.
The above scenes are those of the cornerstone laying of the Edian Markliam Education Build
ing of Saint Joseph A. M. E. Church wUch took place here last Saturday at 12 o’clock noon. The
building Is nmed for the foonder of Saint Joseph, the late Kev. Edlan Markham, who also cave
the land on which the church was founded and how stands. The cornerstone was laid under the
direction of Worshipfol Master Richard James of Doric Masonic Lodge and Worshipful Master J.
L. Moffit of Dorcas Masonic Lodge by authority of Grand Master G. D. Games.
Those in the main picture from left to right are Robert Edian Markham, great-crandson of the
founder; Richard Jwes, Worshipful Master, Doric Lodge; Mrs. Sylvia Markham, wife of Delaney
Markham, her husband, grandson of the founder; Cecelia Elaine Wiggins, great-great-grand-
daughter of the founder, standing in front of her grandfather. Reverend D. A. Johnston, Pastor
of Saint Joseph, under whose leadership the eduoatienal building was erected.
The Inset shows Beverend C. E. McLester, chaplain of Doric Lodge, just after he had offered
prayer. Others In the picture; reading from left to right are, Alexander McLean, Kelly Bryant, sec
retary of Doric Lodge, Worshipful Master James, Beverend McLester, Tom Fitzgerald, Past Wor
shipful Master Doric Lodge, Bl. M. Bullock, Jesse Turner, secretary of Dorcas Lodge and James
Carrington.
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Domed Boys’ Lawyer
Hasift Planned Next Step
RALEIGH
“We haven’t been able to
give the matter much thought
yet,” said Attorney Herman
Taylor, lawyer for the doom
ed Daniels cousins whose
third and latest appeal to the
Supreme Court was turned
down this week/^wlWn asked
what other avenues pdght be
tried to keep the yoi|thy|cpaa
facing the State’s gas cham
ber.
Attorney Taylor was con
tacted at his office here ear
ly this week shortly after it
was announced that the Su
preme Court decided to txim
down a petition for a new
hearing in the case.
The Pitt County cousins, Ben
nie and Lloyd Kay, were con-
Mayor Jack MarcUsea e
Bocky Moont made Ustery
last week as he offieiaUy de
signated Suday, Oeteker ZS
s “NAACP DAY” ky aa e-
fMal proeiavatlea.
State Meet In
Rocky Mount
Friday-Sunday
ROCKY MOUNT
The mayor of Rocky Mount,
in an action witiiout parallrt in
North CaroUna, proclaimed
Sunday, Oct. 25 as “NAACP
Sunday” as plans were hurried
for the 10th convention of the
North Carolina NAACP here
Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
In a history-making procla
mation, Mayor Jack Murchistrfi
designated Sunday as "a day ot
brotherhood” and urged the dty
to pray for “human dignity” and
continued progress in hu^nan re
lations.
Mayor Murciiiaon’s edict
marks the first time in the his
tory of the State organization
tiiat a North Carolina dty offi
cial lus made a similar recogni
tion of the NAACP.
An unusually heavy crowd is
expected for this year’s con
vention which will feature such
national NAACP figures ^Wal
ter White, “Mr. NAACP.” Baatjr
Mo», puldie rrlsttnaa dtwrtor,
Herbert Wright, y«ath secre
tary, and Kelly Alexander,
president of the North Carolina
NAACP.
Charlie Jones, president of
the host Rocky Mount chapter,
made assurances early this week
that his committee has arranged
amplg housing and entertain
ment for the delegates from the
sixty State NAACP branches
and national office staff mem-
toers scheiiuled to converge on
the city on Friday.
Most of the session of tiie
three day meeting are set for
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vioted by a Greenville Coan-
ty Jury In ^049 of the mard^r
of a white taxi cab driver and
sentenced to death.
Attorney Taylor, who has con
ducted a running legal battle for
four years to save the youths
from the chair, has appeided the
case twice before the State
Supreme Court, the Federal Dis-
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Trade Week
Organization
Is Completed
DURHAM
Plans for the Durham Busi
ness and Profession Chain’s
Trade Week program were
hurried to completion late
this week as Trade Week
planners focused their atten
tion on the street parade Sat
urday, October 31 which is to
laimch the celebration.
Trade Week, aa snaaal affair
sponaored by a group of Dar-
ham bnslacsa ai^ professleaal
men banded together la aa ar-
ganlxation called the Chala,
has for Its parpoae to pramata
better bnatwias praetieca aad
to encourage increased trada
amo^ its members.
A Render of event released
by Henry W. Gillis, co-chairman
of tliis year’s Trade week, re
vealed three feature events of
the week, include the opening
parade on Saturday, Octobw 31^
m banquet on Monday, Novembw
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Mrs. S. V. Cooper Leads In TIMES Holy Land Contest
MRS. BALDWIN aOSE SECOND
The first week’s balloting in the CAROLINA TIMES
“Holy Land" trip subscription contest revealed the top spot
that Mrs. Susie V. Cooper of Oxford had taken the top apot
with Mrs. Nell Baldwin of Wilson following close behind.
Several contestants who have not sent in a report as yet
have received votes from friends who have forwarded to this
office subscriptions to be credited to them.
Next week’s balloting is expected to show the trend to
ward those who will actuaUy be in the forefront of the race
for the first period.
However, the race will not be won by those who lead
in the first peric^, but those who are in there fighting all the
way. Several loi^dable candidates are expected to get in
the running and send In reports by Saturday night of this
week which will change considerably the standing of candi*
dates as ^ey are represented in this week’s ballot.
The relative standing for this week is as follows:
MRS. SUSIE V. COOPER-Oxford
MRS. NELL BALDWIN—Wilson
82,000
30,000
REV. WILLIAM LAKE—Burlington 20,000
REV. R. mVING BOONE-Wihnington 20,000
PROF. G. L. HARPER—Roxboro 15,000
PROF. HUGH BROWN—Goldsboro 15,000
MISS MABEL POWELL—Clinton 15,000
REV. W. F. ELLIOTT—High Point
PROF. CHARLES STEWART—Kinston .
PROF. I. E. SPENCER—Henderson
REV. P. A. BISHOP—Rich Square .
PROF. A, L. STANBACK—Hillsboro
-10,000
_10,000
-10,000
-10,000
-10,000
CONIESI IN FlliST PEKIOD
PROF. W. R. COLLINS—Smlthfield
REV. J. R. MANLEY—Chapel Hill
PROF. C. W. ANDERSON—Greensboro
REV. J. A. BROWN—Durham
PROF. J. C. BIAS—Scotland Neck
10,000
10,000
10,000
10,000
* 10,000
MRS. LENORA E. BAIRD—AahevUle 5,000
PROF. E. J. JONES—-Asheville 5,000
MRS. ROSA GAINES—Durham 5,000
MRS. EDITH L. BAILEY—Asheville 5,000
MRS. ROSA GAINES—Durham 5,000
PROF. E. U. BARNES—Wilson 5,000
REV. R. W. UNDERWOOD—Rocky Mount 5,000
REV. H. H. HAWKINS-Concord 5.000
PROF. J. A. TARPLEY—-Greensboro _
REV. E. T. BROWNE—Durham
REV. JAMES R. BESS—Philadelphia
MRS. MABEL DAVIS—Wise
REV. LOWRY REID—Durham
PROF. H. M. HOLMiS—Durham
MRS. C. L. WEBB—Asheville
REV. F. O. BASS—Hi^ Point
REV. J. F. WERTZ——Charlotte
-5,000
-5,000
.5,000
.5,000
.5,000
.5,000
-5,000
.5,000
.5,000
5.000
5.000
REV. W. L. WILSON—Winston-Salem
REV. O. L. SHERRILL—Raleigh -
REV. K. O. P. GOODWIN—WinstothSalem 5.000
REV. EDWARD GHOLSON-^inston-Salem 5,000
PROF. C. L. BLAKE—Charlotte 5,000
PROF. ROBERT M. EARL—Burlington 5,000
PROF. W. H. PATTILLO—Tarboro - 5,000
PROF. D. P..LEWIS—Roanoke Rapids 5^)00